Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Article	Citations
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy	5
Moses, the Lifter of the Sky: A Novel Reading of Exodus 17:8–16 in Light of the Heliopolitan Cosmogony	5
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem	3
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2024	3
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–8	2
4. Texts and Versions	2
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation	2
Index of Reviewers	2
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell	1
On the Threshold: Liminality in the Stories of the Concubine of Gibeah and Ruth	1
“Die Empörten Weiber”: Gender, Authority and Protestant Modernism in Jeremiah 44	1
A Blameworthy Burial: A Methodology for Inner-Biblical Allusion with a Case Study from Chronicles	1
9. Apocryphaand Postbiblical Studies	1
Index of Publishers	1
Ritual spaces in the home in two biblical narratives: The house of Micah (Judg. 17) and the house of the medium at Ein Dor (1 Sam. 28)	1
Jeremiah as the model city: ‘Iron pillar’ as temple language in Jeremiah 1.18	1
Index of Authors	1
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities	1
The centrality of individual petitions in temple rituals: Hannah, Solomon, and first-person psalms	1
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative	1
The poetics of YHWH: Establishing criteria for identifying intentional allusions to the divine name in YHWH-acronyms	1
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context	1
The Aqedah as ‘template’? Genesis 22 and 1 Kings 17–18	1
Index of Series	1
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies	1

6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation	0
Books Also Received	0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls	0
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)	0
Index of Authors	0
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos	0
11. Philology and Grammar	0
7. Law, Religionand Theology	0
Backlighting Jeroboam: Form, Content, and Paronomasia in 1 Kings	0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls	0
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel	0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man	0
Psalm 74 and social identity	0
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia	0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)	0
The ironic syllogism: A rhetorical use of unmarked questions	0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel	0
Index of Authors	0
The Main Character of the Book of Esther: The Contribution of the Textual Divisions and the Assigned Titles of the Book of Esther to Uncovering Its Protagonist	0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy	0
The Society for Old Testament Study	0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform	0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)	0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)	0
bĕ-rēʾšît, “With ‘Wisdom,’” in Genesis 1.1 (MT)	0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant	0
The diachrony of the Hebrew verb בָּעַל‎	0
YHWH in a Suit: Kəbôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God	0
11. Philology and Grammar	0
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context	0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies	0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples	0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b	0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2023	0
Index of Publishers	0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–10	0
Behemoth’s Penis, Yahweh’s Might: Competing Bodies in the Book of Job	0
3. History, Geography and Sociology	0
‘Like the snail that dissolves’: Construction of Identity of Psalmist and Enemy in the Lament Psalms of the Individual	0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls	0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy	0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-18	0
Index of Reviewers	0
7. Law, Religion and Theology	0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies	0
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile	0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts	0
A cannibal reading of the Hebrew prophets	0
11. Philology and Grammar	0
The Prevalence and Purpose of the ‘Assyria-Egypt’ Motif in the Book of Hosea	0

1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)	0
5. Studies on Specific Books	0
3. History, Geography and Sociology	0
Epiphany and epilepsy: The Epitomator’s approach to history and disease in 2 Maccabees 3.22–28	0
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-38	0
King Solomon and the ‘Anatomy’ of Wisdom	0
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David	0
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)	0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples	0
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsaa	0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–9	0
David as primary model of repentance in Chronicles: How the Chronicler’s inclusion of David’s illicit census sin impacts David’s legacy	0
The ancestors’ masculinities in Genesis	0
Naming Jerusalem: Poetry and the Identity of the Personified City in Lamentations 1-2	0
3. History, Geography and Sociology	0
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis	0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)	0
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations	0
Index of Publishers	0
Index of Series	0
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel	0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy	0
Books Also Received	0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice	0
(More) On the Precative Qatal in Lamentations 3.56-61: Updating the Argument	0
‘For a Man Is Born to Suffer’: Intertextuality between Job 4–5 and Gen. 2.4b–3.24	0
11. Philology and Grammar	0
Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: The undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism	0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples	0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)	0
Ceremonial Celebrations Outside the Temple Compound in Ezra-Nehemiah in Babylonian Ritual Context	0
Priestly Disability and Centralization of the Cult in the Holiness Code	0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–39	0
The Ram of Ordination and Qualifying the Priests to Eat Sacrifices	0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls	0
4. Texts and Versions	0
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus: Ornithological character traits	0
Narratological implications of the differences between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint: 1 Samuel 10.5 and 13.1–4 as a case study	0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy	0
Index of Reviewers	0
“Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more”: Understanding the image of the cup of God’s wrath in Jeremiah 25 in light of the Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft tradition	0
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 131	0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment	0
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon	0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel	0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph	0
4. Texts and Versions	0
Worship as Social Creativity: Social Identity and the Form of Psalm 79	0
‘Let your name be …’: The change of the names of Israel’s ancestors in light of the Atra-ḫasīs myth	0
Blood Manipulation in Hezekiah’s Re-inauguration of the Temple in Chronicles	0
Engaging Westermann and the Assumptive World	0
5. Studies on Specific Books	0
Index of Reviewers	0
A pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story: A subtle condemnation of a dysfunctional social structure	0
Surfing with Jonah: Reading Jonah as a Postcolonial Trauma Narrative	0
Parallel Structures in Judges and the Formation of the Book	0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)	0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation	0
Law and Emotion in Moral Repair: Circumscribing Infringement	0
The Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–19	0
David, Once and Future King? A Closer Look at the Postscript of Psalm 72.20	0
The House That Built Me: The ‘House of God’ and Its Role in the Construction of Fear in Nehemiah 6.1–15	0
Clinging in love: Attachment indicators and implications in Deuteronomy 10.12–11.1	0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech	0
Books Also Received	0
Index of Authors	0
Index of Series	0
Economics and Urdeuteronomium: A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi	0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)	0
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–8	0
The Resilience of the Captive Girl Child in 2 Kings 5	0
The question of future hope in 2 Kgs 25.27–30 and the book’s dynastic framework in 1 Kgs 1.1–53 and 2 Kgs 11.1–20	0
7. Law, Religion and Theology	0
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah	0
Psalm 120 and the question of authorship of the songs of Ascents	0
Index of Series	0
The Society for Old Testament Study	0
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman	0
7. Law, Religion and Theology	0
Are God’s ‘Good Plans’ not Good Enough? The Place and Significance of Jer 29.15 in Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles	0

Who is the holy seed?: Purity and identity in the Restoration Community	0
Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–30	0
Let There Be Cain: A Clash of Imaginations in Genesis 4	0
Enjambment as a syntactic phenomenon and poetic technique in the Psalms of Ascent	0
3. History, Geography and Sociology	0
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-12	0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples	0
Israelite or Moabite? Ethnicity in the book of Ruth	0
Simul justus et peccator : The literary strategy of Solomon’s narrative and its redactional issues (1 Kings 3–11)	0
The Aesthetics of Biblical Acrostics	0
Index of Publishers	0
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach	0
4. Texts and Versions	0
Hiding in plain sight: Identifying implicit markers of בושׁ‎ in Hebrew narrative	0
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship	0
Is Eliphaz a false prophet? The vision in Job 4.12-21	0
Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective	0
Endangered or Dangerous? YHWH’s Presence and Impurity in Levitical Perspective	0
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale	0
To what extent is the Moses story modelled on other biblical stories?	0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies	0
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns	0
Ezekiel’s God in pursuit of recognition: A catalyst for self-transformation	0
‘Jacob, my father’: The character of Judah in the Joseph Novella (Gen. 37–50)	0
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”	0
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther	0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation	0